If only. 😞 My ADHD-I brain often just decides that that is the thing we are going to focus our attention on, because apparently it’s preferable to be bloody annoyed by some stupid sound than to get actual work done.
i’ve just been using audacity for that myself, i’ll record the source of the noise, and then clean it up and play it back a little to make sure it’s not just, barely audible.
SERIOUSLY. I have an mx ergo, and for some reason the FUCKING IDIOT hardware designers at logitech decided that it NEEDED a soft blinking charge indicator, which sucks doubly as much as whine from a basic LED flashing because now it ramps up and down, continually, until charged.
Thank god i only need to charge it like once every 4 months or so.
Back in high school, as part of my IEP, I was “allowed” (by which I mean forced) to take my tests in a different room from the other students. This other room was the resource teacher’s classroom, and she tried to be “accommodating” by removing all of the very distracting flyers from her walls and making the room into a sterile white box which I was not allowed to leave until my test was finished. In addition, the room was completely silent with the exception of a printer, which had a blinking LED in standby mode and occasionally woke up the WiFi chip to check for new print jobs. It whined like ANYTHING. If tuning out a constant whine that alternated between two pitches every half second wasn’t hard enough, every ten seconds, it would go up to a third, higher pitch, warble for a second or so, then go back to the first two.
I was stuck in that room for an hour every day after school because no one could figure out what was taking me so long to finish my exams (even after I told them). (They wouldn’t let me unplug the printer during that hour, naturally – what if the resource teacher suddenly needs to send a print job to it from across campus, while coaching the volleyball team?) It’s been four years since I graduated and I’m still mad.
(Oh, right, I forgot to mention – the resource teacher was also the volleyball coach, so she couldn’t stay to monitor my tests. The person who did was a middle aged lady who spent the entire time on her Chromebook and occasionally interrupted my test to show me a Facebook meme. She didn’t even look at me apart from that.)
it doesn’t stop the noise, unfortunately. I would have to figure out what’s causing it first and then probably glue it down to prevent it from moving at all. That might not even work.
It’s not physical movement that’s doing it, you’re hearing EM whine. Unless you want to glue down all the electrons in there but they’re really small and there’s a lot of them and even if you could get them all then your shit wouldn’t charge anymore.
Shitty USB chargers get to me. They all produce an electrical pitch.
THEY DO
Thankfully the ADHD part constantly forgets about the noise.
If only. 😞 My ADHD-I brain often just decides that that is the thing we are going to focus our attention on, because apparently it’s preferable to be bloody annoyed by some stupid sound than to get actual work done.
I keep a spectral analyzer app on my phone so I can check if it’s a real noise or just tinnitus settling in.
Which one are you using?
I like AudioTool by jjbunn. But you’ll need an external mic if you want anything resembling accuracy.
Spectal Analyzer Pro. There’s a free version too.
It’s practically abandonware at this point.
i’ve just been using audacity for that myself, i’ll record the source of the noise, and then clean it up and play it back a little to make sure it’s not just, barely audible.
Jokes on you, my tinnitus canceled it out. Now EVERYTHING rings.
Sometime around 35 I finally stopped being able to hear these tones just from the natural aging process.
People say aging has no upsides but I’m driven crazy by random noises so much less often now.
SERIOUSLY. I have an mx ergo, and for some reason the FUCKING IDIOT hardware designers at logitech decided that it NEEDED a soft blinking charge indicator, which sucks doubly as much as whine from a basic LED flashing because now it ramps up and down, continually, until charged.
Thank god i only need to charge it like once every 4 months or so.
Back in high school, as part of my IEP, I was “allowed” (by which I mean forced) to take my tests in a different room from the other students. This other room was the resource teacher’s classroom, and she tried to be “accommodating” by removing all of the very distracting flyers from her walls and making the room into a sterile white box which I was not allowed to leave until my test was finished. In addition, the room was completely silent with the exception of a printer, which had a blinking LED in standby mode and occasionally woke up the WiFi chip to check for new print jobs. It whined like ANYTHING. If tuning out a constant whine that alternated between two pitches every half second wasn’t hard enough, every ten seconds, it would go up to a third, higher pitch, warble for a second or so, then go back to the first two.
I was stuck in that room for an hour every day after school because no one could figure out what was taking me so long to finish my exams (even after I told them). (They wouldn’t let me unplug the printer during that hour, naturally – what if the resource teacher suddenly needs to send a print job to it from across campus, while coaching the volleyball team?) It’s been four years since I graduated and I’m still mad.
(Oh, right, I forgot to mention – the resource teacher was also the volleyball coach, so she couldn’t stay to monitor my tests. The person who did was a middle aged lady who spent the entire time on her Chromebook and occasionally interrupted my test to show me a Facebook meme. She didn’t even look at me apart from that.)
we really need to just, criminalize electronic signalling circuits from making noise.
Shit’s wack.
Electrical tape or a permanent marker solves this.
it doesn’t stop the noise, unfortunately. I would have to figure out what’s causing it first and then probably glue it down to prevent it from moving at all. That might not even work.
If it’s coil whine there isn’t really anything you can do :/
yeah, thanks logitech, very cool.
It’s not physical movement that’s doing it, you’re hearing EM whine. Unless you want to glue down all the electrons in there but they’re really small and there’s a lot of them and even if you could get them all then your shit wouldn’t charge anymore.
Like the charging brick?
I thought I was going crazy when I got my first one that whined while it charged. Nobody else noticed
OH my GOD YES. Switch mode power supplies without proper noise suppression need to die and they need to die YESTERDAY